Posted by Kimmo Laine on 06/27/79 11:25

"ZeldorBlat" <zeldorblat@gmail.com> kirjoitti
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> Yeah, that's how I would normally write it...with the short tags. But
> I figure if you're just learning, you might as well get into the habbit
> of the full open tags since people these days seem to think that
> they're bad :)

They are bad, at least if you're writing (or trying to write) xhtml
compatible code. There you need the xml declaration row <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?>. If short tags are on, and the xml declaration is in a
php file, it's concidered as php. And since 'xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"' makes no sense in php, it raises an error. I've done a few
times so that I echo the xml tag , ie <?= '<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?>' ?>, but that again is bad practise. It would be better
to leave short tags out and write proper code.

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